Meet Saira Blair the 17 year old West Virginia Girl who just defeated a sitting politician. . .

and is likely headed to the West Virginia House of Delegates.  Saira Blair won the West Virginia GOP Primary by running on a Pro Life, Pro Family Pro Gun positive campaign.  Good for you Saira!

• Girl, 17, on verge of becoming youngest lawmaker in West Virginia’s history just a week before graduating high school after running on pro-life, pro-gun platform
• Saira Blair, 17, unseated a West Virginia lawmaker almost four times her age
• Now one election away from becoming the youngest state lawmaker

A teenager is on the verge of becoming the youngest lawmaker in West Virginia’s history just a week before graduating high school after running on pro-life, pro-gun platform.
Saira Blair, 17, was barely old enough to vote when she unseated a West Virginia lawmaker almost four times her age.
After Tuesday's GOP primary, she is now one election away from becoming the youngest state lawmaker in West Virginia history - Larry Swan, sworn in as a 20-year-old delegate in 1972, set the current record.

Saira Blair, 17, was barely old enough to vote when she unseated a West Virginia lawmaker almost four times her age

Blair's birthday is in July, so she would just meet the 1

8-year-old minimum age for West Virginia House of Delegates members.

 

Seventeen-year-olds who will turn 18 by the November election can vote in West Virginia's primary.Soft-spoken and on-message, Blair is a churchgoer who says she is pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun rights and pro-business.

Saira and mother. After Tuesday's GOP primary, she is now one election away from becoming the youngest state lawmaker in West Virginia history - Larry Swan, sworn in as a 20-year-old delegate in 1972, set the current record

She can rattle off a laundry list of businesses taxes she wants abolished or lowered.'People saw that you don't need to wait until you are 40, 50 or 60 to realize our conservative principles are beneficial to everyone,' the Martinsburg teen said of her primary win.Blair also has family experience on her side.Her electrician father, Craig Blair, is a state senator who once held the House seat she is seeking.The teenager has more on her mind than stump speeches.She graduates from Hedgesville High School next Wednesday.
Then she'll head to West Virginia University in the fall to pursue economics and Spanish degrees. She says finance is her field of choice.

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